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To be more accurate, I loathe and despise it, and have done since I first received a commercial email spam, in the early 1990s. The very name "Mailgun" sounds to me no different from "Spam cannon". Substitute "chimp" if you want; it doesn't make it better for me.
Fair warning, just this week Mailgun locked my account due to random "spam" detection. We only send unique hand created emails and have only sent to about 200 unique users over the last few months. Because our account is locked, our customers cannot contact us at all and we can't reach out to them. It's been 3 days and our support messages have gone unanswered. Hopefully this gets cleared up real soon. I kind of feel…
Similar thing happened to me as well. I added another domain for a completely different project and their spam detection locked my account completely, including my main project I've been using for a long time before without any issues. Got account unlocked after six hours of downtime though, but I changed email provider since then.
It seems they do that on a TLD basis, for example if you add the domain "spammer.xyz", it will probably lock your account because ".xyz" TLD is considered risky.
They support always fix the problem, but we're always locked a few hours, this is super annoying.
Semi-related: If you are in the market for an email provider for transactional emails, I encourage you to use Postmark. It's a developer focused company with a simple pricing model and great documentation, and their IPs tend to have great reputation scores. I don't work for them, but I switched from one of these two and am very happy I did.
A semi-interesting story, we used Postmark at my last company. When we signed up they offered something like 50,000 free credits. Then if we setup DKIM they offered another 50,000 or so credits. Then about three months later they sent us a survey and offered us another 75,000 credits if we filled it out. All in all before we had even launched our application they had thrown nearly 200,000 free email credits at us. We…
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Similar thing happened to me as well. I added another domain for a completely different project and their spam detection locked my account completely, including my main project I've been using for a long time before without any issues. Got account unlocked after six hours of downtime though, but I changed email provider since then.
What did you change to?
Fair warning, just this week Mailgun locked my account due to random "spam" detection. We only send unique hand created emails and have only sent to about 200 unique users over the last few months. Because our account is locked, our customers cannot contact us at all and we can't reach out to them. It's been 3 days and our support messages have gone unanswered. Hopefully this gets cleared up real soon. I kind of feel…
You can use gsuite programmatically for easy inbox management with the Gmail API.
I dislike automated commercial email. To be more accurate, I loathe and despise it, and have done since I first received a commercial email spam, in the early 1990s. The very name "Mailgun" sounds to me no different from "Spam cannon". Substitute "chimp" if you want; it doesn't make it better for me.
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> our customers cannot contact us at all I thought mailgun was for delivering emails? How/why are they your MX?
They are actually one of the few services that u can use for programmatically receiving emails. When it works, it just works - but unfortunately the spam thing bit us as well. Fortunately we were able to get it resolved quickly
I dislike automated commercial email. To be more accurate, I loathe and despise it, and have done since I first received a commercial email spam, in the early 1990s. The very name "Mailgun" sounds to me no different from "Spam cannon". Substitute "chimp" if you want; it doesn't make it better for me.
So company employees should send you handcrafted "Please confirm your email address by clicking this link" transaction emails?
My inbox is full of rubbish ads - it overwhelms the stuff I care about, and makes my life sadder.